"The blooming of a flower is, in my mind, not a miracle. It's something that we can understand on the basis of molecular biology these days"

-- Francis Collins

#Flower Quotes #Miracle Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.”
“Being captive to quarterly earnings isn't consistent with long-term value creation. This pressure and the short term focus of equity markets make it difficult for a public company to invest for long-term success, and tend to force company leaders to sacrifice long-term results to protect current earnings.”
“The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad”
“When I was a kid, everywhere I went people said I should be a model, but I was more into skateboarding,”
“Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery.”
“...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.”
“For those at home, as well as for those in battle, war is curiously disabling. The mere realization that one's country is at war poisons the bloodstream, creates an incessant mood of worry that infiltrates even the most casual moments.”

Source : Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House
“We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.”

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